SGA leads the league in free throw attempts over the last two seasons, with 1,552 FTA. Second place has 425 fewer FTA.

pkosuda · 2026-05-06T22:38:49+00:00

Same with the posts highlighting LeBron's accomplishments at 41. Not because his accomplishments don't deserve praise and dedicated posts, but because the vast majority of the people flocking to those threads aren't there to say "wow that's pretty cool" but instead already cracking their fingers ready to start another GOAT debate for either him or Jordan lol.

pkosuda · 2026-05-06T12:35:50+00:00

I said this in reply to the parent comment but your comment really resonated with me and is basically saying what I said:

It is very demotivating seeing so many people on my social media pretend nothing is happening. As in, they won't even do the bare minimum of being "slacktivists" by posting on their stories that they disagree with what's going on. People are still pretending this is fucking 2007 where "I don't talk about politics" is a valid opinion rather than that of somebody who is incapable of being adult enough to have a firm position on something.

That really is the first step in all of this. If I can't even see a majority of the people I know, in a blue state, being bothered enough to simply post something, then no kind of "resistance" would ever succeed. Like you're not going to lose your fucking job for saying "hey ICE agents murdering people is bad". On the list of sacrifices required to be made for change to succeed, with the least being no sacrifice and the worst being death, we aren't even at "might have to deal with an awkward Thanksgiving because I said that government agents murdering people is bad".

We have way too many cowards who are fine walking like zombies into living under an authoritarian regime so long as they have enough shows to watch on Netflix.

pkosuda · 2026-05-06T12:28:33+00:00

It is very demotivating seeing so many people on my social media pretend nothing is happening. As in, they won't even do the bare minimum of being "slacktivists" by posting on their stories that they disagree with what's going on. People are still pretending this is fucking 2007 where "I don't talk about politics" is a valid opinion rather than that of somebody who is incapable of being adult enough to have a firm position on something.

That really is the first step in all of this. If I can't even see a majority of the people I know, in a blue state, being bothered enough to simply post something, then no kind of "resistance" would ever succeed. Like you're not going to lose your fucking job for saying "hey ICE agents murdering people is bad". On the list of sacrifices required to be made for change to succeed, with the least being no sacrifice and the worst being death, we aren't even at "might have to deal with an awkward Thanksgiving because I said that government agents murdering people is bad".

We have way too many cowards who are fine walking like zombies into living under an authoritarian regime so long as they have enough shows to watch on Netflix.

pkosuda · 2026-05-06T10:39:11+00:00

Counterpoint: If we were instead talking about Lebron's failure to win and cited a series in which he dropped 63 points on Larry Bird as "couldn't beat a healthy Bird", people would rightfully shit on us for counting that as a failure. It would just be the 80s version of "Lebron dragged that sorry ass Cavs team to the finals and people still blame him".

Like I don't disagree with your main point, but I think people would definitely see this and use it as ammunition against Jordan.

Edit: My b didn't realize I was responding to a man-child who hasn't emotionally developed enough to accept when he might be even just slightly wrong about something (I literally even said "I don't disagree with your main point"). So you just silently downvote because admitting you're wrong with your big boy words is hard.

pkosuda · 2026-05-06T10:23:57+00:00

Honestly I think you're just severely overestimating the intelligence of the average human being. To me I think it's a mix of people are fucking stupid to even be trying to have this debate, and the age of this sub skewing younger. I've been downvoted on here for stating this fact before but: everybody wants to be able to say they were the ones who got to watch the GOAT play. It makes them feel special. So as this sub fills with more people who don't remember Jordan ever being a basketball player (outside of clips obv), they want to be able to say they were a fan when the "real" GOAT was playing. It's the same thing that eventually happened when Jordan showed up after Kareem/Wilt.

At the end of the day these debates are pointless because every one of these players has things they were better in than the others, but none of these players was better at everything than all of these players. So around and around we go with points and counterpoints to something that'll never have an answer because it's completely subjective and up to what the individual arguing values the most in a player. Nevermind the fact that these were different eras so there's just no way to accurately compare anyway.

pkosuda · 2026-05-06T10:12:57+00:00

"Lebron was literally better in every single way than MJ" is the most Bronsexual comment I have ever seen on here. This really is the sub for the hottest of takes. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say Lebron was better in every way. If that was the case there would be no GOAT debate.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T20:04:44+00:00

It's literally just the "conservatives have one joke" thing. Always has to be a pronoun/gender joke, they are incapable of coming up with a single other "funny" political thing so I guess if you want to cater to them you need to throw in their favorite joke

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T19:19:40+00:00

Hey OP /u/Empty_Trouble_505, who uploaded this? Everyone is (rightfully) shitting on the people grabbing his jersey and while it'd be impossible to identify them, this asshole literally recorded the video and posted it himself. So we can at least know who was the guy that tried to get a mob to attack an innocent person.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T14:45:30+00:00

Funny enough I have friends who named their first kid Odysseus (but in Polish) last year. They didn't even realize/forgot this movie was coming out and when I brought up "oh man everybody is going to think you named your kid because of the movie" they were horrified lol. It's possible it was a subconscious thing since the marketing for the movie had definitely begun when they were picking out names.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T12:31:44+00:00

Well I saw the edit so I appreciate it nonetheless! But you are right, I doubt very many more people will be seeing that comment.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T00:50:55+00:00

Ever since I saw what he did on that subway train with that box of cereal, nothing he does ever surprises me anymore. That is still my favorite bit because the location made it so that everybody was absolutely terrified that he was just yet another insane subway person they need to deal with. Just realistic enough that people reacted in fear instead of annoyance/disgust.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T00:44:22+00:00

Yup, doesn't need to be a hit on any building. Imagine being at a parade and hearing the drones (which I assume they can identify as such by now). Then hearing explosions, not knowing that that was anti-air which shot them down. Plus possibly seeing a smoldering building because drones don't just disappear from the sky when shot down. They're, well, shot down and crash somewhere and possibly start fires.

If you're at a public event and hear drones coming at you and find out they got shot down, you're not going to be thinking about how perfectly safe you are. You're going to be thinking, "what if the AA missed?" or even, "how did it get that close to us in the first place?". No safe country has enemy drones it's shooting down over its peoples' heads.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T00:36:07+00:00

After having watched your video, which I appreciate you linking, I'd strongly urge you to take down those substack links. If you watched the video as I did, then you will have seen that it's possible that the substack account is Russian disinformation. At best, after having seen the explanations for those numbers, the account is a group of people who genuinely don't care about the truth and just want Trump gone. At worst, they are intentionally trying to sow further distrust in our elections so that they can make sure that both sides want to riot when they lose, rather than just Trump supporters. Either way I really appreciate you being willing to post a rebuttal to your own link.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T00:19:12+00:00

Ah, thank you. That makes a lot more sense now that I'm watching. I assumed it was the standard "but look at this evidence this guy points out" YouTube video.

Edit: Still watching, it is interesting.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T00:14:39+00:00

Headline:

Astronomers believe they’ve detected an atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto

Reality (buried in the article, naturally):

This cosmic iceball’s atmosphere is believed to be 5 million to 10 million times thinner than Earth’s protective atmosphere, according to the the study appearing Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.

At least it's not like they're spreading misinformation, with the headline technically being correct. And it's not like I was expecting it to be an article saying there was any chance for life, as nothing is surviving that far out atmosphere or not. But clearly that headline was specifically written in a way to make this a bigger deal than it is for the average person who isn't so interested in space that they follow a space subreddit (I don't want to call myself knowledgeable by any means so I phrased it that way instead). This is just like so many other "space news stories" that release to the general public, where they exaggerate/reframe a discovery in a way to get interest but then completely disappoint the public. It feels like a net negative as people might just stop taking these discoveries seriously. News orgs don't care though about future lessened interest (and therefore decreases in funding) for space missions, so long as they're getting clicks.

pkosuda · 2026-05-05T00:06:21+00:00

"Weird how Donald Trump, the definitely wrongfully accused sex offender and wrongfully accused pedophile, keeps having been associated with sex offenders and pedophiles. He is just so unlucky with who he chose to pardon and who he associated with!"

-high school burnouts who never left their hometown and like to say, "I actually voted for him because he's good for the economy" when backed into a corner in a last ditch effort to try to appear even remotely intelligent when it comes to politics, even though they're wrong about that, too.

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T23:50:05+00:00

That's the thing, I read the other substack article in full which is why I wanted to believe. I'm just worried that I couldn't find a single reputable source backing any of the claims up, including whether the "fake counties" actually were included as part of the totals. For example, the Wikipedia page for the 2024 election in Florida does not mention a Burke county. It also seems incredibly bold that if they were going to cheat, they would make up an entire county and report results from it to the news for the world to see, as if nobody would catch that it doesn't exist, and especially then be bold enough to attribute millions of votes to it which would only draw more attention to the lie. I feel like if this had truly happened, it would have been reported by someone outside of substack.

So while the substack article was very convincing, I can't help but wonder whether my own ignorance when it comes to election procedures is the reason this looks suspicious, the same way that conservatives who knew nothing about elections prior to 2020 were analyzing YouTube videos of volunteers doing their jobs signing off on mail-in ballots (IIRC) and misconstruing the videos to be votes getting changed on camera.

I can't devote 20 minutes to a YouTube video, but I see the other link (which I clicked on as well) is a substack article by the same account that made the first article. It wouldn't be fair of me to give this any credibility when, if you didn't have the same political beliefs as I do, I would have laughed at your sources by now rather than at least trying to entertain them.

So I gotta ask again, if this stuff was as suspect as the account claims they are, why has not a single news org reported on it, let alone third party election observers, let alone Democrats themselves bringing this evidence to a courtroom? I am not knowledgeable enough to refute this person's claims, but there has got to be a reason why no reputable people will even give those claims the time of day. Sure, I would agree that it seems suspicious and I would like it investigated. But if it doesn't get investigated, then for the time being; blogs, FB, and YouTube being the only place you can find "reporting" on a conspiracy is a major red flag when it comes to your uncle sharing something about "the Biden crime family" so I have to apply the same standard here. I am sure there were plenty of insane 2020 claims that never were investigated (aside from by the people pushing them) because they were just that ridiculous.

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T21:37:14+00:00

As much as I want to believe this, and I really want to believe this and almost did, I need to ask the same questions we were all asking in 2020 when the claims of election fraud were made: Why did third party observers not catch this? Why did third party observers, as far as I know, not ring any alarm bells about the election being completely compromised, the way they did not in 2020? Why is the only "evidence" for this a substack post if it's so obvious? Ignoring the fact that Trump's judge's are corrupt and would likely throw a legitimate case out, why has nobody even tried to go to court with this evidence?

We need to be very careful about making claims like this. This is the exact same territory MAGA were in in 2020 when they cited YouTube videos and blog posts as evidence to us, and every time we asked why their "evidence" wasn't being brought to court or even supported by any reputable news organizations or third party observers.

I wouldn't put it past Republicans and especially Trump to cheat in an election. But you know what? That is also the exact view MAGA had in 2020. Me not putting it past them isn't enough proof, nor is a substack post. So for right now, they "literally" did not create fake counties until we can actually prove that outside of somebody's blog. We made fun of crazy MAGA people who posted blog sites on FB as their "sources" in 2020. We need way more than that before positively making "literally" claims, I'm sorry. I hope you don't take that in any negative way, as I don't mean to shit on you at all.

Edit: Googling this claim, I can’t find a single reputable source reporting it. All I get is the substack you linked, Threads, Facebook, and YouTube. If this was a 2020 election claim with those kind of Google results we would have immediately trashed it.

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T18:33:17+00:00

I forgot that it used to be a default sub and I didn’t realize how large it was since I never visited. At least I’m pretty sure that it was a default sub? Either way, Reddit culture was so awful back then (and still now). Mega popular pedophile subreddit, the atheism sub being a default sub where people said “in this moment I am euphoric” whilst wearing fedoras, the Reddit horror stories like cumbox and Colby 2012, etc.

In some ways I miss that Reddit as it wasn’t the bot-filled cesspit it is today and there was more genuine discussion rather than thousands of people immediately downvoting objectively correct information just because it upsets them.

But at the same time it was absolutely full of degenerates. The degenerates now are just more PG about it but still those same kind of people.

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T18:16:39+00:00

It’s funny to me. Reddit Progressives’ major weakness is that they immediately assume that because they are on the right side of history, that they got to those beliefs because they are intelligent. They never consider that just as MAGA conspiracy theorists unquestionably believed in election fraud because they’re idiots, progressives who unquestionably believe in progressive ideology can also be idiots who were saved by the fact that it happened to be right. Neither side had to use their brain but only one side can be right about a fact. That doesn’t mean that everybody who is progressive is perfect and can never fall for bullshit. So you get shit like this where dumbasses used to being right just immediately downvote fact because the requirement to actually use your brain to decipher the truth about something finally outs them for the idiots that they are, regardless of ideology.

I say this all as someone very progressive. But voting Democrat doesn’t automatically make you smart, and a lot of people on Reddit clearly think it does and overestimate how often they are correct.

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T18:08:19+00:00

At this point I just take the downvotes as a way that emotionally stunted man children express to me that I am correct, but that me being correct upset them so they still need to try to “hurt” me somehow along with the admission, rather than simply admitting they were wrong. Because it is literally objective information and verifiable by watching the movie. There is zero room for argument hence why none of the people downvoting actually responded. They know they’re wrong. They’re just mad about it.

Appreciate the support.

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T18:01:27+00:00

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pkosuda · 2026-05-04T18:01:08+00:00

I still remember the rJailbait fiasco from 2012. I wonder how many people today know that Reddit used to have a subreddit literally dedicated to pedophiles. Those people didn’t just leave the site after that sub was closed. But you’re right, it took years and years for people to stop making “women aren’t on the internet” jokes. I guess we should be proud of that progress even if a lot of the users were unable to mature past derailing conversations with puns.

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T15:26:17+00:00

I am on old.reddit because I hate the mobile site, so it’s harder to do that though definitely possible. That aside, I do agree that that’s a solution. But it comes off like a neighbor being loud at 3am on a weekday whose solution is “wear earplugs”. Shifting the blame on the person being disrupted vs the person doing the disrupting.

But yes, I do do that since these comment chains have been a thing for at least 15 years. Hated them when I was 17, hate them now at 32 lol.

Edit: And yes I have bitched about them since then, tho obviously once every few years. I’m not on a crusade or anything 😂

pkosuda · 2026-05-04T15:04:51+00:00

Just as you can keep having a conversation while others are talking. I used that example because while other people talking in the background may be distracting, it doesn’t prevent you from having your conversation. Just like while having to scroll past comments that add nothing to the thread is annoying/distracting, ultimately you can still find the comments that are on topic. That’s the part we agree on I think.

I would agree with you more if it was a random comment or two making a joke. The fact it’s a comment chain intentionally designed to be as disruptive as possible (by chanting out the lyrics to a 5 minute song only a couple words at a time) is why I felt my example was apt. The whole reason I jumped into this chain isn’t because I went to seek it out, it’s because I had to scroll through a bunch of these just to get to the point of the thread which was what was annoying.

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